Cigarette and match package



Q 1.3, 1942. H. SCHNEIDER 2298;595

CIGARETTE AND MATCH PACKAGE Filed Nov. 17, 1939 INVENTOR Patented Oct. 13,, 1942 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE V CIGARETTE AND MATCH PACKAGE Henrietta Schneider, Hllis,'N. Y. Application November 17, 1939,-Serial No. 304,900

6 Claims.

This invention relates to cigarette packages and the like. It is especially related to cigarette packages having attached to same in suitable manner a series of matches, whereby to facilitate lighting a cigarette and eliminate for the smoker the possibility of being without matches.

While many attempts have been made to attach matches to cigarette containers or packages, the results obtained thus far, have nevertheless not overcome certain disadvantages, and of which some of them concern the possibility of making the matches easily accessible for removal, without however distorting the outside appearance of the common and standardized forms of packages and of spoiling or entirely eliminating the characteristic ornamental design and advertising matter of their labels.

It is one of the objects of this invention to provide a cigarette package with matches, which has the matches fully covered by the package label, so as to retain the characteristic appearance of the advertising label on the package.

Another object is to provide means whereby to easily remove each single match located behind th label, without however eliminating any part of the characteristic advertising matter or design from the package.

A further object is to provide an arrangement of matches behind the label, which will facilitate seizing a single match for a quick removal of same.

These and other objects which will be pointed out in the specification and especially the accompanying claims, I attain by the construction and arrangement shown in the drawing in which Fig. 1 is a respective view of a package of cigarettes.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the package when opened and with matches removed.

Fig. 3 illustrates a cigarette label with matches attached to same. I

Fig. 4 shows a modified arrangement of matches on a label and Fig. 5 depicts an enlarged view of part of a label and matches.

Cigarette packages of the present day standard size and design comprise a rectangular shaped, folded container made of heavy paper which has an outer covering of tinfoil or the like as a protection.

Surrounding this container or casing is a label made of paper and which covers the entir surface except one of the endparts of the casing,

for the purpose of permitting access to the cigarettes without tearing of the label.

This type of package, which has been adapted as standard by nearly all the cigarette manufacturers of this country, can therefore no longer be changed to suit conditions whereby to attach matches for the convenience of the smoker, without involving expensive alterations in machines and tools.

In the present invention the standard package and its label are to retain their original design and shape. Nothing else is required, but to attach a series of matches to th inner or blank surface of the paper label, or to add to an attached label on the package a match holding paper strip, in the manner to be described hereafter.

In referring to the drawing, Fig. 3 shows a piece of paper I0, of which its other, non-visible surface is printed with advertising matter. The full drawn lines indicate the size of the paper or label l0, conforming to the size required for attaching a label to a package. One of the vertical edges, as well as the lower edge may be provided with an adhesive, whereby to cause them to be retained on the package.

Two. series of the common type paper matches II and I2 are held to the inner label surface at their respective match borders l3 and I4. These borders are preferably held to the paper II! by means of glue or other suitable adhesive.

The paper matches are arranged in a manner whereby their heads I5 face each other, leaving however a suitable space between them for safety, as well as for providing facilities for the user to take a hold of one of the matches and tearing it from the label.

The facilities for seizing the head of a match comprise a series of vertically arranged perforations 16 in the label, each of which is located in the space between the opposing heads of the matches. label are scores, which extend both in a vertical as well as a horizontal direction. The vertical directed scores I! extend between the head of the matches and form each an intermediary line between the perforations l5, while the horizontal scores I8 are located each in substantially the middle of one of the gaps formed by the matches and extending to the match borders l3 and I4.

The labels holding the matches may either be half-size or full-size, depending on Whether or notithe package is to disclose itsv advertising Adjacent to these perforations in the matter, even after matches are being torn from the package.

Fig. 2, which shows some of the matches torn from the package 20, illustrates that beneath the match label 2! is positioned in substantial alignment an original or primary package label 22, so that whenever the match label with its printed front surface is reduced in size, the package label 22 will automatically receive a successively larger visible area, so that the printed matter on the package remains visibly the same at all times and is never obstructed.

In the above described case, the match label is pasted on top of the original package label, and it is evident that the former need not have the same size as the other. The match label ID of Fig. 3 shows therefore only one-half the size of the package label. The edge line of this type of match label is shown at 23 in Fig. 2-.

Should it be desired to make the match label a full-size label for wrapping the same around the entire surface of the package, the matches pasted to the back of the label may be located in different positions relative the edges or side portions of the label. determined by the position of the figures and letters of the advertising matter on the label and whether the side edges 24, 25, Fig. 3 are to overlap each other at one of the narrow sides, or at one of the wide surfaces of the package.

The dotted lines 26, extending to the left of edge 25 in Fig. 3 are to indicate a broken portion of an extended full size label l9, and of which its edge 21 would meet and overlap the edge 24. Judging by the location of the illustrated two series of matches in relation to each other, it is evident, that if the matches are to take the same position as that shown on the packages of Figs. 1 and 2, the side edges 24, 21 of label ID will overlap on a side portion of the package, as shown at 23 in Fig. 2.

The full-size label i shown in Fig. 4, illustrates the heads of the two series of paper matches H, I2, facing the respective side lines or edges 24', 21' of the label. the latter around the package, it is evident, that if the matches are to be located on the package in the manner shown in Figs. 1 and 2, that is, on a face area thereof, the edges 24, 21', will therefore not meet on a side, but in approximately the middle of the face of the package.

It is therefore quite evident, that the label with its attached matches can still be located on the package in a manner to suit any conditions, as for instance facilitating the manufacture of or meeting the ornamental arrangement in design of the advertising matter on the printed label.

When removing and tearing off a match from the cigarette package, that part of the scored paper which overlaps the match, will of course be removed with the match.

In order to facilitate the tearing of this paper strip and to make the adjacent strips to remain on the package during a match removal, the scoring or incision of the paper label may comprise respective vertical and horizontal perforations 28, 29, as shown in Fig. 5, the size of which need not however be as large as the middle or head perforations 38, which, due to their extreme width, easily permit seizing the paper with a match for tearing it off" the package.

While the matches are to be attached to the The match location is When wrapping conventional type paper labels now on the market, it is obvious that they may also be fastened to moisture-proof and transparent cigarette package covers, if so desired and that the kind of material to which the matches are to be attached may be selected to suit any conditions. Should the cover material comprise a substance which possesses a grain and which is most easily torn in only one definite line of direction, it is evident, that in such a match-holding cover the grain will be placed substantially parallel with the length of the matches.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire by Letters Patent is:

1. A cigarette package comprising means for maintaining a plurality of cigarettes in a wrapped condition, a cover adapted to form a label and the like and located on the outer surface of said means, a secondary cover having match stems attached to its inner surface, the match stems held against said package by said secondary cover being positioned substantially at right angle to the lengthwise direction of said package and being bent over on one or more lengthwise edges of said package, whereby to gain space required for providing a maximum amount of matches for said cigarette package.

2. A cigarette package comprising means for maintaining a plurality of cigarettes in a wrapped condition, a cover adapted to form a label and the like and located on the outer surface of said means, a secondary cover having match stems attached to its inner surface, the match stems held against said package by said secondary cover being positioned substantially at right angle to the lengthwise direction of said package and being bent over on one or more lengthwise edges of said package, whereby to gain space required for providing a maximum amount of matches for said cigarette package, the bent-over part comprising substantially the end portions of said match stems.

3. A cigarette package comprising means for maintaining a plurality of cigarettes in a wrapped condition, a cover adapted to form a label and the like and located on the outer surface of said means, a secondary cover having match stems attached to its inner surface, the match stems held against said package by said secondary cover being positioned substantially at right angle to the lengthwise direction of said package and being bent over on one or more lengthwise edges of said package, whereby to gain space required for providing a maximum amount of matches for said cigarette package, said match stems being spaced and said secondary cover having incisions in its material positioned substantially parallel with and intermediate the location of the space between said match stems.

4. A cigarette package comprising means for maintaining a plurality of cigarettes in a wrapped condition,a cover adapted to form a label and the like and located on the outer surface of said means, a secondary cover having match stems attached with their end portion to the secondary covers inner surface, the match stems held against said package by said secondary cover being spaced and said secondary cover having incisions in its material positioned in a manner whereby to substantially surround the three open sides of each match stem and permit its being torn off in conjunction with a singular steincovering portion of said secondary cover without in any manner disturbing the singular stemcoverings of the remaining match stems on said package, each match stem, after being torn 01f,

being unattached to its accompanying torn-01f stem-covering portion.

5. A cigarette package comprising means for maintaining a plurality of cigarettes in a wrapped condition, a cover adapted to form a label and the like and located on the outer surface of said means, a secondary cover having match stems attached with their end portion to the secondary covers inner surface, the match stems held against said package by said secondary cover being spaced and said secondary cover having incisions in its material positioned in a manner whereby to substantially surround the three open sides of each match stem and permit its being torn off in conjunction with a singular stemcovering portion of said secondary cover without in any manner disturbing the singular stemcoverings of the remaining match stems on said package, each match stem, after being torn off, being unattached to its accompanying torn-off stem-covering portion, the attached match stems being bent over on one or more lengthwise edges of said package whereby to gain space required for providing a maximum amount of matches for the cigarettes in said package.

6. A cigarette package comprising means for maintaining a plurality of cigarettes in a wrapped condition, a cover adapted to form a label and the like and located on the outer surface of said means, a secondary cover having match stems attached with their end portion to the secondary covers inner surface, the match stems held against said package by said secondary cover being spaced and said secondary cover having incisions in its material positioned in a manner whereby to substantially surround the three open sides of each match stem and permit its being torn off in conjunction with a singular stemcovering portion of said secondary cover without in any manner disturbing the singular stemcoverings of the remaining match stems on said package, each match stem, after being torn off, being unattached to its accompanying torn-off stem-covering portion, the attached match stems being bent over on one or more lengthwise edges of said package whereby to gain space required for providing a maximum amount of matches for the cigarettes in said package, the bent-over part comprising substantially the end portions of said match stems.

HENRIETTA SCHNEIDER. 

